Tag Archives: Big Mountain Skiing

Bill Briggs Interview

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 12, 2011

I had the honor a couple of weeks ago to sit down with Bill Briggs- arguably the father of ski mountaineering in the US. I interviewed him for Powder over a cup of coffee at the Virginian. I must say, what an amazing character. Check out the full interview here.

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Bird Brain, with some bird brains

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 16, 2010

Bird Brain I love Jackson. Like sex and pizza, even when it’s bad, it’s still good. Case and point was this last week. Although there wasn’t blower pow anywhere in bounds, there’s still lots of stuff to do out the back. This couloir is off the backside somewhere. “I think, if you just point it [...]

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South American Freeskiing Championships Preview

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 3, 2009

The people of La Parva, Chile, love two things: Condors and freeskiing. While I can’t really explain their obsession with the former, their obsession with the latter is pretty understandable—amazing terrain and meters upon meters of annual snow. For this reason, it’s no surprise that the Freeskiing World Tour is kicking off there next week [...]

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